Gwyneth Paltrow Turned Down Roles in All of Your Favorite Movies

The cinema as we know it wouldn't have been the same.

In a recent interview on the Howard Stern show, Gwyneth Paltrow did a little kissing and telling—and not just about her famous former flames. She mentioned that she passed up quite a few film roles.

It turns out she could have been Rollergirl in Boogie Nights, which was ultimatelyplayed by Heather Graham.

When Howard asked if she regretted giving up the chance to be in one of Paul Thomas Anderson's biggest masterpieces (our words, not his) she said, "It was my dad" (her father, Bruce Paltrow, was a director). "I really wanted to do it."

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"My grandfather — I was very close to him and he was pretty conservative— I just thought, 'I can't be totally naked and like, giving a BJ on screen. I'll kill my grandfather! So, I didn't do it. And by the way, Heather Graham was perfect, so it worked out perfectly." Alright, she makes a good point there.

Meanwhile, she turned down an even more epic role—wait for it—Rose in Titanic. You know, the greatest love story ever told and the highest grossing film of all time until Avatar. Yep, it was almost Gwynnie selfishly whimpering, atop a wooden slab, "Don't go Jack."

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Say what you will about Her Goopiness, but Gwyneth Paltrow can certainly act, so we have no doubt that she would have done a stellar job breaking our hearts in Titanic, but it's still difficult to compute.

Stern, however, was insistent that Paltrow dish. "You only get to pick certain movies," he said. "When you're offered Titanic — James Cameron — one of the biggest movies of all time, I don't know psychologically... I would throw a fit that I turned that down!"

She cooly responded that she "couldn't change the past."

"I know that the story is that I turned it down," Paltrow said of Titanic. "I think I was really in contention for it — I was one of the last two."

"I look back at the choices I've made and think, 'Why the hell did I say yes to that? And no to that?' And you know, you look at the big picture and think: There's a universal lesson here. What good is it to hold onto roles?"